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why is being able to cook considered attractive when most cooking is just following simple instru⊠actually no wait I get it now
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Seriously considering dressing up as Bioshock's dancing baguette boy this Halloween
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Excited to have heard myself mentioned in the latest episode of
@backpagepod.bsky.social
, thus securing my place in the canon of UK video games journalism as âguy who was excited about the announcement of Metroid Prime 4 at E3 2017â
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Tired: Missing my arbitrary 1h55 target time by 39 seconds Wired: Running a sub 2h half marathon for the first time
about 2 months ago
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Reading my hinge profile versus going on a date with me
about 2 months ago
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A Life Well Wasted, video gamesâ answer to This American Life, just dropped its ninth episode in 16 years and itâs an absolute banger
alifewellwasted.com
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Episodes âą A Life Well Wasted
https://alifewellwasted.com
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my flatmate: leaves hair straighteners turned on and goes to work my flatmateâs straighteners: start beeping to tell me flat is about to burn down me: wow what an annoying noise, better put on noise cancelling headphones to block it out
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God exists, and he's cancelling my 4:30pm meetings
3 months ago
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Remembering fondly a time in school when I completely blanked on the word "Medieval," panicked, and referred to the period instead as "Castle times."
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nige 'computer boy'
9 months ago
Frankly, my dear... Frankly. Frankly! Come back Frankly, I love you! I'll stop doing the Clark Gable bit I promise! Damn. She's gone. Like the wind
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I love how two of Spielbergâs movie titles are just an acronym and then an explanation of that exact acronym
9 months ago
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Coach Finstock
9 months ago
No one wants you to know what the other side of the MGM logo looks like
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Dan Whitehead
9 months ago
Here's the full Nirvana performance from Fire Aid for anyone who doesn't want to sort through the whole live feed for it. Fucking hell.
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Nirvana live: FireAid 2025 [NIRVANA REUNION]
YouTube video by Joe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KBbxbx9N6o
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I like how some video game preorder bonuses are like âhereâs a funny hat for your characterâ and others are like âhereâs a gun so powerful itâll ruin the game for you if you ever use itâ
9 months ago
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to all the folks successfully selling their rtx 4070 ti supers on eBay for £700+ before the rtx 5070 ti comes out next month for £729⊠well played
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James Vincent
9 months ago
here's my take on what we should learn from this week's deepseek panic â that AI has bound together the fortunes of tech, finance, and politics in a fragile and unsustainable way. and if deepseek doesn't pop this bubble, some future launch will
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The DeepSeek panic reveals an AI world ready to blow | James Vincent
The R1 chatbot has sent the tech world spinning â but this tells us less about China than it does about western neuroses, says journalist and AI specialist James Vincent
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/28/deepseek-r1-ai-world-chinese-chatbot-tech-world-western
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Prince Charles Cinema
9 months ago
#SaveThePCC
Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease. For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below;
you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...
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Save The Prince Charles Cinema
The iconic Prince Charles Cinema in Londonâs West End future is under serious threat! We are beyond disappointed that our landlords Zedwell LSQ Ltd and their ultimate parent company Criterion Capital...
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princecharlescinema
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Might get really in to swimming just so I can yell âYouâve heard of Elf on the Shelf, now get ready forâŠâ when I dive in
9 months ago
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Is there a worse feeling in gaming than solving a puzzle thatâs supposed to teach you something without knowing exactly how you did it?
10 months ago
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A fascinating read for anyone even a little bit interested in what goes into remastering a movie for a 4K re-release
collider.com/david-finche...
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"The Most Thrillingly Stupid Fix in the World": David Fincher Tells Us How He Used AI for the 4K Restoration of 'Se7en'
Fincher also explains why his Netflix projects likely won't ever get physical releases.
https://collider.com/david-fincher-se7en-4k-ai/
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Tom Warren
10 months ago
people who lived through the prep work for Y2K are always rightfully defensive about that period of time in computing. NPR should have said âY2K didn't live up to the hype *BECAUSE* years and billions of dollars were spent on painstaking preparationâ and avoided some of the backlash here đŹ
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Iâm not a prenup guy, but I do think itâs worth getting in writing how many times youâre allowed to say âmy wifeâ in the Borat voice per annum
10 months ago
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The lovely thing about Indiana Jones is that his style of stealth is SUPPOSED to be a little slapdash, so it doesnât feel like youâre playing the game âwrongâ if you fuck up and have fist-fight 50 Nazis
10 months ago
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Holy crap what an absolutely delightful video about saving an historic piece of retro tech
youtu.be/JfZxOuc9Qwk
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What Happened to the World's Largest Tube TV?
YouTube video by Shank Mods
https://youtu.be/JfZxOuc9Qwk
10 months ago
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God bless every single guard in a stealth video game whoâs happy to sit there endlessly talking to themselves to reveal their location
10 months ago
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A remarkable piece on a surprisingly eccentric British pub chain
www.theguardian.com/news/2024/de...
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Humphreyâs world: how the Samuel Smith beer baron built Britainâs strangest pub chain
Since the 1970s, Humphrey Smith has acquired scores of pubs and historic properties around the UK. But time after time, he has left the buildings empty. Why has he allowed his empire to moulder?
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/dec/19/humphreys-world-how-the-samuel-smith-beer-baron-built-britains-strangest-pub-chain
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ââŠnow what I'm with isn't *it*, and what's *it* seems weird and scary to me.â
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10 months ago
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lol, people didn't know this before? smh
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10 months ago
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"Thanks to silt and sea breezes" So what you're saying is... wind begets wind?
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Brussels sprouts will be 25% bigger this year, thanks to silt and sea breezes
Farmers say good growing conditions will result in a bumper crop, with the average sprout 30mm in diameter
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/dec/15/brussels-sprouts-25-bigger-may-be-sexier-too
10 months ago
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phil
10 months ago
your true love gave you eight maids a milking? cool. just one question. what the fuck are you talking about
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Itâs a question as old as time: âIs that a soundcheck or has the mathrock bandâs set started?â
10 months ago
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Canât believe the guy who worked at an Apple Store a decade ago was wrong about Half Life 3 being announced at The Game Awards
11 months ago
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Every day Google's AI summaries find new ways to be crap
11 months ago
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This quote is giving real âWhat the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little shitâ Reddit energy
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Jason Koebler
11 months ago
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg changed his Slack name to "Goneđ" and posted that he didn't want to work on WordPress anymore after a court injunction in the WP-Engine case
www.404media.co/wordpress-wp...
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WordPress CEO Rage Quits Community Slack After Court Injunction
Automattic is ordered to undo several of the actions of its CEO Matt Mullenweg in its ongoing legal battle with WP Engine. âIt's hard to imagine wanting to continue to working on WordPress after this,...
https://www.404media.co/wordpress-wp-engine-preliminary-injunction/
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In our latest instalment of "AI features that promise more than they can deliver": Notion's "Ask AI" feature will happily provide a completely incorrect figure if you highlight some text and ask for a word count
11 months ago
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oh no, Iâm at serious risk of getting my hopes up again about high speed rail in the UK
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11 months ago
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it really is a shitter for those of us with unattractive music tastes that spotify wrapped season overlaps with cuffing season
11 months ago
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as is tradition my Spotify Wrapped is too embarrassing to share in full, but this one slide made me laugh so I guess you guys can see it
11 months ago
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speak for yourself junior
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Chris Person
11 months ago
You are seeing more and more routers pre-flashed with OpenWRT (GL.iNet for example). The OpenWRT One is produced by Banana Pi, who have made boards for this purpose before but it's nice to see an officially sanctioned device for 90 bucks! I go into OpenWRT here:
aftermath.site/opnsense-pro...
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As a proportion of the US population, barely anyone used Twitter even in its heyday. The idea that it was ever a representative town square is a fantasy.
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11 months ago
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Congrats to Corridor Crew (who donât seem to be on BlueSky just yet) for hitting 10 million subscribers, and to Wren in particular for getting absolutely hammered in celebration
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VFX Artists React to Bad & Great CGi 158
YouTube video by Corridor Crew
https://youtu.be/Zvo0ZhVW7KY
11 months ago
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Itâs unreal how much joy my physio gets from repeatedly pushing needles into my knees My legsâll do a big spasm and heâll say âphwoar!â in his thick Kiwi accent as his little moustached face grins I just canât even
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god this is beautiful
www.theverge.com/c/24278723/c...
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How to watch a baby
A digital comic by Kristen Radtke.
https://www.theverge.com/c/24278723/comic-baby-monitor-surveillance-history-tech
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Dave Earley
11 months ago
Traffic from Bluesky's
@bsky.app
to
@theguardian.com
is already 2x that of Threads In its first week on the platform & with 300k followers, Bluesky traffic from
@theguardian.com
posts is already higher than it was from TwX in any week in 2024, where the account had 10.8m followers, butđ§”
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Oooo, someone's brought back Nuzzle for the post-Twitter era!
sill.social
takes your BlueSky and Mastodon details and returns a list of all the articles your follows are linking to, so you can keep up with news being shared without getting distracted by the social chatter
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Sill
Sill streamlines your Bluesky and Mastodon feeds to give you a clear picture of what's happening.
https://sill.social
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Have there been any attempts to reverse engineer the âTwitter algorithm source codeâ that Musk released (as part of a stupid stunt) into a BlueSky following feed?
www.theverge.com/2023/3/31/23...
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Twitter takes its algorithm âopen-source,â as Elon Musk promised
Iâve seen the code.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/31/23664849/twitter-releases-algorithm-musk-open-source
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Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty SEO journalist: Best cup 2024: release date, news, and features
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John Collins
11 months ago
Did you know that by substituting your morning coffee with green tea, you can eliminate up to 93% of what little joy you have left?
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